Small Town to a Big City: The Experience
This fall, a lot changed for Manal Ahmed. The sophomore from
a small town in Louisiana started her college career out in New Orleans as a
student at Tulane University but quickly transferred to The University of Texas
at Austin this year.
Ahmed, without hesitation, was drawn dramatically to her new
home in Austin. Coming from Prarieville, LA, the neurobiology major had to swiftly
adjust to the new big city life. Her hometown in Ascension Parish is a quaint
bedroom suburb for Baton Rouge with a population of about 30,000. Known for its
farms and rural communities there isn’t much to do there for people around her
age.
Ahmed, while she loves her home, has loved the change even
more. She feels that coming to Austin has opened her up to many things she would
have never seen or discovered before. Ahmed loves the fact that there are so
many different organizations at UT that are so diverse. This gave her a much
larger sense of diversity than she has seen before and she loved every ounce of
it.
Along with this, Ahmed believes that Austin gave her a much
larger sense of culture. Austin, being the Live Music Capital of the World, has
an enormous history of music and the arts. With several festivals each year, such
as Austin City Limits and South by Southwest, Ahmed has been shown many
different cultural aspects that just aren’t possible in Prarieville.
In this short video, Ahmed describes her experience coming
to such a different place than she is used to. Getting lost in the city life is
just the thing she needed for herself and her education. Austin has unlocked a
whole new world for her and with it comes a whole new experience.
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